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The church in Egypt had most likely invented the papyrus codex by the second-century. [229] In the late fourth century, Pope Damasus I commissioned Jerome to translate the Greek biblical texts into the Latin language used by the educated governing classes. Called the Vulgate, it uses many terms common to Roman jurisprudence. [230]
The history of the Catholic Church is the formation, events, and historical development of the Catholic Church through time.. According to the tradition of the Catholic Church, it started from the day of Pentecost at the upper room of Jerusalem; [1] the Catholic tradition considers that the Church is a continuation of the early Christian community established by the Disciples of Jesus.
Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Christianity spread from the Levant , across the Roman Empire , and beyond.
April 28, 1565: The Basilica Minore del Santo Niño is the first Roman Catholic church in the Philippines. 1568: John Chrysostom, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzus, Athanasius of Alexandria and Thomas Aquinas are made Doctors of the Church. July 14, 1570: Pope Pius V issues the apostolic constitution on the Tridentine Mass, Quo Primum.
Mission of Barnabas and Paul, (Acts 13:1–14:28) to Cyprus, Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra and Derbe (there they were called "gods ... in human form"), then return to Syrian Antioch: Map1: 47: The Church of the East is created by Saint Thomas in the Persian Empire(Modern Day Iraq and Iran) 48: Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15).
Considered to be the world's first purpose-built church. [21] Etchmiadzin Cathedral: Vagharshapat: Armenia: 301 (tradition); current church: 483–484 Armenian Apostolic Church: According to scholars it was the first cathedral of the world (but not the first church) built in ancient Armenia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mar Sarkis Monastery ...
The Maronite Church and the Syro-Malabar Church are Eastern Catholic churches that never broke communion with the Church of Rome. Within the Antiochian church the Eastern Catholic movement started after the Ottoman Turks' conquest of Antioch in the early 15th century, under whose control it remained until the breakup of the Ottoman Empire at ...
The influential popes of the Catholic Church called ... Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) created in central Europe ... 4600 - 4200 BC: First European ...